Harrisburg, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrisburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 13367. The Survey maps it on the West Lowville quadrangle.

Harrisburg within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrisburg, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Harrisburg, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1902 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1943 USGS West Lowville quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Harrisburg between 1995 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisburg in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Harrisburg	$10,000	Damage was reported to a home on Route 26.

Every storm recorded in Lewis County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Windecker	3.0 miles	19
Denmark	4.1 miles	20
Briggs Corner	4.2 miles	19
Clark Corners	4.2 miles	19
West Lowville	4.5 miles	19
Bellwood	5.0 miles	20
Copenhagen	5.2 miles	19
Castorland	5.8 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972601. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.